October 18, 2018

From Vilified to Hot: The Suprising Saga of Don McGahn

On Wednesday, that heady experience ended for Don McGahn. He was replaced by Pat Cipollone. Here are more details from The Washington Post.

Now the legal, business, and political media outlets are ready to pounce on what will be McGahn's Next.

Many anticipated he would return to law firm Jones Day, where he had been a partner. But that hasn't been announced. Of course, he has myriad other options.

After his high-profile successful strategy and coaching for getting Brett Kavanaugh confirmed, McGahn is hot.

In some circles he had been vilified when The Washington Post broke the story that he, a Jones Day partner, was representing the Make America Great Again campaign. The buzz was how could a white shoe law firm do that kind of representation.

That was then.

Now, as Law.com reports, Jones Day is earning a bundle in fees in legal work associated with the Trump 202o campaign. Perhaps branding, at least as we had known it, is becoming irrelevant. Money has pushed to the head of the line of what really counts.

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